City To Pay Trash Pickup Cost For Multifamily-site Residents

Oakbrook Terrace — In a move that will cost the city more than $10,000 a year, aldermen have approved funding weekly garbage pickup charges for all multifamily residents living along Spring Road.

The decision stems from the city's contract with Oakbrook Terrace-based waste hauler Flood Brothers, which in 1994 was extended through the year 2002.

That contract provides free, unlimited garbage pickup for the city's main, 350-home subdivision, which only makes up about half the city's population.

However, condominium owners on Spring Road and all business owners have been required to pay for trash removal, while residents in the massive Versailles apartment complex indirectly have paid for garbage pickup through their rent payments.

Although Oakbrook Terrace has been struggling to balance its books, Mayor William Kallas has made it his goal in the last year to relieve the 118 condo owners along Spring Road of the $7.56 a month in garbage fees, offering to have the entire city pay the waste hauler for that charge.